Tags: Entrepreneurship, Handicrafts
By KC Santos
BACOLOD CITY, NEGROS OCCIDENTAL – While making products and novelty items out of paper is now common, this Negrense businesswoman is pushing the envelope a little further by making stylish accessories.
Salvacion Ledesma, proprietor of Papel Handicrafts, is also tapping out-of-school youth and fellow Negrenses to create these paper-based products.
“Paper is really cheap and easily obtainable. You can start a business out of a minimal capital while helping others in the process,” says Ledesma.
Ledesma says she was initially producing typical paper products such as bags, wine holders and trash bins. However, she soon decided to come up with new paper products with the help of a friend.
Her paper accessories also make use of other materials like seashells. Customers would think that the classy products are expensive and made from semi-precious beads, but are in fact, very affordable, she says.
“Considering the effort that the women and children put into making the product, it’s really worth your buck,” says Ledesma.
From the picking of the tiny shells and rolling strips of paper, to the actual making of the accessories, both the women and the children are enjoying how their every effort is equally compensated, Ledesma says.
In a week, the women earn P1,500 pesos depending on the number of items that they finish. Their children, she says, makes use of the money for their baon.
“I want to be able to give them sufficient earnings that they deserve. If they work hard, you should give what’s due them,” Ledesma says.
Ledesma says she feels that her bigger purpose in life is to give her fellow women opportunities to be productive.“They didn’t know how to sell it so instead of putting all their hard work to waste, I put up this business.”
Her skilled accessory makers also produce stylish bags that costs from P275 to P900, along with wine holders, purses, trash bins, coasters and other paper accessories, she says.
She adds that one should also aim to put up a businesses that can be beneficial to others as well.
“It’s common economics. When you go into industries, you hire people. In the process, you help them by giving them an avenue for them to exhibit their skills so play it forward.”
Through her business, which started out six years ago as a livelihood program by the Zonta Club of Bacolod, Ledesma says it is now her personal to help others.
“If I stop, these people’s livelihood will stop, too. Their creativity and skills will go to waste,” she says.
For inquiries or orders, contact Salvacion Ledesma at (034) 4110789 or (0920)9205565 or via email at papelhandicrafts@gmail.com
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